Chinese symbol for “unexplainable”

莫名

mò míng

inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable

The closest CC-CEDICT match for unexplainable is 莫名 (mò míng), defined as: inexpressible; indescribable; unexplainable; inexplicable.

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Characters and stroke order

莫 mò

cannot; do not; is not; negative

radical 140 ⾋ · 11 strokes

名 míng

name; position, rank, title

radical 30 ⼝ · 6 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 莫名.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
莫过于 (莫過於)	mò guò yú	nothing can surpass
莫名其妙	mò míng qí miào	(idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable
莫非	mò fēi	can it be possible that; could it be
莫大	mò dà	greatest; most important
约莫 (約莫)	yuē mo	to estimate; to guess; about; around; approximately
名字	míng zi	name (of a person or thing)
著名	zhù míng	famous; noted
名称 (名稱)	míng chēng	name (of a thing); name (of an organization)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.